OMRON develops world's first onboard sensor featuring cutting-edge AI

OMRON Corporation (Headquarters: Kyoto, Japan; President & CEO: Yoshihito Yamada [TSE: 6645]) announced today the development of the world’s first onboard sensor featuring the “driver concentration sensing technology,” which combines OMRON’s proprietary image sensing technology with state-of-the-art AI (time-series deep learning*) to sense the driver’s various motions and conditions and thereby determine if he/she is in a condition suitable for safe driving. With a view toward realizing collision-free automated driving and other advanced driver assistance systems, OMRON has dedicated itself to making our motorized society safer and more secure by innovating relationships between people and machines. In recent years we have seen multiple cases of accidents where the driver’s condition changed suddenly and thus made it difficult to continue driving, as well as a growing demand for development of technologies…